A SHORT VISIT

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THE IONIAN ISLANDS,

ATHENS,

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THE MORE A.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION.

HAVING been medically advised to pass a couple of months of the last winter in a more southern climate, and particularly recommended to begin by a sea voyage,-the facilities which steam communication now affords of navigating the Mediterranean, and the hope of being able to combine the main object of health with the gratification of an ardent desire to visit the classical scenes of Greece, determined me and Mr Newton-a college friend, and unfortu

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nately a fellow sufferer-to direct our

course that way.

Notwithstanding an unparalleled severity of weather which we encountered in the Morea, and the shortness of the period allotted to me, we had the good fortune to succeed in both our objects. We got rid of the disagreeable symptoms which had originally suggested the voyage, and we visited many of the most remarkable and interesting scenes and cities of classical Greece.

Had our departure been less sudden and our destination more certain, we might have compiled (as I should advise any future traveller to do) from the learned works of Clarke, Leake, Dodwell, and Gell, and some recent itineraries, a plan for our journey, so as by economizing both time and expense, to have been enabled to see the greatest number of interesting objects with the least cost and trouble.

We unfortunately were not able to make